Location: Asia
Capital: Astana ( 271.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Almaty, Chimkent, Karaganda, Ust-Kamenogorsk
Population: 16,300,000
Area: 2,724,900 km2
Coin: 1 tenge = 100 tyin
Languages: Kazakh, Russian
Religions: Sunni Muslim, Orthodox
The Independence's Year: 1991
Mountains: Altaj (4464 m.), Tian Shan
Rivers: Ural, Syrdarja, Irtys, Isim
Lakes: Caspian Sea, Aral, Balkas, Zajsan

It is a great (9 times wider than Italy) country constituted to a large extent from very cold steppes in winter and warm in summer a little inhabited.
It is a grey nation, with scarce attractions, with a flat landscape and with horrible city.
It is the richest of the ex Soviet oriental countries, thanks to huge oil layers, but in general the way of life is still low.
At the end of the years '90 the capital has been moved by the great one, decentralized and Soviet Almaty to the more central and small Astana.